I am an associate professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst. My group is the SLANG Lab, part of UMass NLP. I am also an associate director of the Computational Social Science Institute, and affiliated with the UMass CogSci and the Centers for Data Science and Intelligent Information Retrieval.
Links: CV, Bio, Teaching, Talks, Notes, Misc.
Some current things:
Some current/recent collaborative projects:
- Co-Insights: Fostering community collaboration to combat misinformation. We are part of the UMass team, in a multi-site project with several other institutions.
- Understanding variation in African American Language: Corpus and prosodic fieldwork perspectives with Kristine Yu, Lisa Green, and Meghan Armstrong-Abrami; see also our earlier work in disparities in natural language processing.
- Analyzing Cross-country Bias in News Coverage of International Conflicts and Disasters, 2023 Interdisciplinary Research Grant Project, with Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Ethan Zuckerman, and Paul Musgrave.
- SaTC: Identifying the Demographic Representativeness of Social Media Polls, with Przemyslaw Grabowicz.
- Leveraging Large Language Models to Provide Clinically Feasible Tools for Assessing Discourse in Individuals with Communication Impairments, 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Grant Project, with Jacquie Kurland and Anna Liu.
